"I had a dream of becoming a researcher. That was my quest and interest and it still remains to be my interest", Parrikar said during inauguration of the Goa Planetarium at Miramar beach, a project of the National Council of Science Museums.
"Many factors did not allow me to follow up my interest", said Parrikar, an IITian and metallurgical engineer, who plunged into politics in 1987 and first became a member of the state Assembly in 1994.
Parrikar, representing BJP, has been winning the polls from Panaji constituency consistently ever since and is the party's face in Goa.
The chief minister, who says that he is an ardent reader of British cosmologist Stephen Hawkins, stated, "I sometimes don't understand science. There are some unanswered questions like what is beyond the universe".
Parrikar inaugurated a Rs one crore-worth digital planetarium project in the premises of the Goa Science Centre at Miramar beach today.
The air-conditioned digital planetarium, which is eight meter in diameter, consists of full dome omni focus LCD projector and a fish-eye lens with 180 degree area of projection, mounted on a vertical set up in the centre of the planetarium.
